On the record
No one can read the history of these years and fail to understand their uncompromising denial of its rightness.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “No one can read the history of these years and fail to understand their uncompromising denial of its rightness.”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that the historical denial of certain rights is evident in the actions of the past, reflecting on moral judgments in history.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Other voices in this conversation
